Posted on 12/15/2010 6:22:31 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
POWER GRAB: FCC Commissioner Calls for Gov Run ‘Values Test’, Control Over Minority Characters, Programming & Scheduling of TV (full title)
Simple solution:
Don’t put any on.................
Well, there goes the television industry. Bye-bye!
It’s about time. Now maybe we’ll see more white guys in the NBA.
I’ve also noticed the lack of Japanese players in the NFL and NASCAR. Maybe we could get more women into pro sports. We could mandate a merger between the Victoria’s Secret football league and the NFL.
Clicking on the site: Not found 404........
Just as long as The Professional Left will declare that they will be fine with President Palin's FCC values tests.
They are using those tv reality shows a training films.
Just put “COPS” on prime time and you’ll meet this guy’s litmus test.
Exactly!! They must not have considered, or do not believe that their rules will ever apply to them adversely if another party is in power.
Either that or they are calculating that a Republican President won't have the balls to change the rules back.
Ask yourself this question: Which Republican President do you think WOULD change the FCC rules back to where they were?
Mitt Romney?
Mike Huckabee?
Rudy Guiliani?
Sarah Palin?
Chris Christie?
Control Over Minority Characters
Jimmy “J.J.” Walker, be glad your career is long-since over
This is net neutrality.
Yes, I know, Copps never actually uses the phrase in the video. He doesn’t even really talk about the internet.
That. Doesn’t. Matter.
If the federal government wants to control content on TV, and on radio, it’s only a footstep away to get the internet.
When we have dictators in control who are saying openly that they want to dictate, to think that they’ll only dictate TV, and Radio, but the sanctity of the internet shall not be infringed.......... is ludicrous.
Here’s the deal.
I look at Copps and I do not see the FCC commissioner. I see a revolutionary.
Same thing when I look at others who are openly stating that they’ll silence us online, on TV, and elsewhere. Mark Lloyd or Robert McChesney, or Cass Sunstein, or Elena Kagan, or a whole host of others both in and out of government who are tied to this administration are stating it openly.
I don’t see them as a Czar, or a SCOTUS judge, or a professor, or any of their ‘official’ titles.
I take them at their word. If you listen to Copps as the FCC commissioner, you won’t hear him talk about net neutrality. If you listen to him as a revolutionary, you can’t miss it.
I didn’t notice that, thanks for mentioning. Search the phraze ‘power grab’ over at the blaze:
http://www.theblaze.com/?s=power+grab+commissioner
It’s a hard thing to link because it has quotation marks in the URL.
Here is more of what Copps has said recently:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2638618/posts
Thanks!
The reason is quite simple: Because he's not talking about net neutrality.
Even if he were to use the words, he would be talking about a bastardization of it. Believe it or not, the telcos like this. They like the issue of net neutrality being confused with other issues. They promote it through their lobbying and through their astroturfing. Confusing pro-freedom net neutrality with pro-censorship fairness doctrine turns people who want freedom against it.
Net neutrality is about freedom of communications, an open, unobstructed Internet. Fairness doctrine is about censorship. Not one FCC proposal, not one congressional bill for net neutrality has EVER included fairness doctrine tenets. Come back to me when one does. Until then, post to me about fairness doctrine only in relation to fairness doctrine, not net neutrality.
—————The reason is quite simple: Because he’s not talking about net neutrality.—————
He is talking about governmental controls over content and using TV as an example. Net Neutrality is a part of the total package. These revolutionaries can’t let us freely speak anywhere. What would be the point of controlling radio and TV without net neutrality? It would be worthless. They have to control it all, otherwise their schemes do not work.
-————Even if he were to use the words, he would be talking about a bastardization of it. ——————
No, he would be talking about the modern version of net neutrality. Very few people even remember the old version of net neutrality.
When these revolutionaries talk about “net neutrality”, what I hear is “the neutrality doctrine”, because that’s what they mean.
I hear what they really mean because I’m listening to them as revolutionaries. Not as the chair of the FCC or this-or-that-czar or whatever.
Nobody who cares about free speech goes out and openly talks about governmental controls on free speech. The two just don’t mix.
And then at the same time, these people who want all these controls are also fighting to keep the internet free and clear. The two just don’t mix. It’s the oxymoron of all oxymorons.
There are two versions of net neutrality, and the one you support died a very quiet death.
Did you even listen to what Copps is saying in the two videos I’ve recently linked you to? Did you read the American Thinker article? They appear to realize that Copps is dangerous to our first amendment rights.
FCC push to regulate news draws fire
FCC Wants More Ethnic Diversity On Airwaves (More end runs on freedoms)
FCC Commissioner Calls For Greater Regulation of News Media
FCC Commissioner Tells BBC: “American Media Has A Bad Case Of Substance Abuse”
(FCC's) Copps calls for "public value test" for American media
FCC Commissioner Wants to Control the Content of Broadcast Media
And let's not forget how busy his boss [FCC chairman Julius Genachowski] has been of late:
Obama Socialist Regime Moves For Control of the Internet
Sources: FCC chief working on net neutrality proposal
Genachowski's frequent treks to White House (FCC Chairman)
Should an Independent Regulatory Agency Head Be Visiting the White House This Often?
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